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Task Force

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Action: FYI and files

. Ref =: WAVE 3748

1. Gu 45 May 1962, at about 1730 hours Youu “QWIWAVE: conducted
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9 No, 361 Marianao, Havana, pléved as s clerk in
NInisteria-tonercio Exterior, Department of “Empresas y
Alimentos", Foreign Exchanse Section. Subject has’ been i

. militant in the DRE since late 190, working as, & pesséngex
: and_confidait” for contacts in their "Yerat ‘Apparat (not the
< Clandestine net), ‘Subject arrived va on PAA Flight

422 on 15 > Has 1962,

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-receptionest_in.. the office of_her brother‘|Carlos. _BARO}-046 :

220 NE 26th ‘Terrace, Miami. Subject | was employed -as..
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a déntist- in the|L & 23rd Bldg}: =Vedado.
in Miami. on PAK” Tight: “422 on S May 1962.

2. Subjects’a and b are sisters and - ‘were questioned together On
the topic of recept-ton of radio: prograns in’ ‘Cuba, both, vere agreed’:
the best reception was the "Voz do Tas ‘Americas which came “in strol
and clear with rarely any ‘tater ference Jjamming.. ‘Progran content wa
described ‘as. generally good, gave &- morale boost to the audience and

. was” becoming popular.

: 3. In comment ing on Radio Las Americas, ‘they: pointed, out that
‘; they. had not heard it -or attempted to tune In ‘becausé they “felf. the.
quality was much ~ the same as its predecessor, * "Radio Swan” which lost ot
its prestige prior’ to and: ‘during the. April 1961 invasion attempt. Both} =:
"declared this was a ‘general | opinion among their acquaintances, | : ,

4. Subjects commented very favorably on programs heard over
station XEW, Mexico and’ WRUL, New York, describing reception. and ‘con=
‘tent as. good and with ‘large: ‘audiences in.Cuba. oo

5S. In ‘referring’ to other prograns, subjects reported that’ on

1 May, relatives in ‘the. Matanzas area. telephoned them: in’ Havana to tell
them that the "students" (DRE) were on again (TV intrusion). Also,
later in. the day, friends in ithe: Vedado. area called to tell. them.to

- tune into Channel, 2; that there was, a program there (about. 2115. hours

“. Jocal). Unfortunately, they had. ‘already “sold their’ TV-set since- they.
were leaving s00n.. Both agreed thatthe system of announcing the Tv:
intrusion broadcasts over CONTE Aguero" S program.on WRUL a fow minutes
prior to the intruslon was the. key. to large. audiences. Almost alr:
coc oppositionists pon hearing this ahnouncenent , Start. telephoning.
thetr friends to tune Anto : the TV ghannel announced. :

6.) ‘Canceraing - tne DRE internal ‘organization, subjects. reported:
that they had. not been active. recently and not witting to clandestine’
operations, They, were aware, however, that. the DRE ‘internal net was},
waiting for the infiltration of AMHINT-53 or AMHINT-2. ‘to brief. them on :
the situation in exile and what support: would be forthcoring. “They.
reiterated the -reports on two. bombs ‘set off in the untversity area by
the DRE and burning of cane ‘and henequen fields in Natanzas ‘and: Lis
Villas. °° : . .

7. “When queried on- disturbanées. in Las Villas and/or Matanzas on

‘or about 3 May, they replied thay they Neard the persistent rumor that |

a unit (company or regiment unknown) | af militia-had bolted and fone
up into the Escambray Mountains, -No further details: were known,

} 8. When’ questioned on written ‘propaganda such as “flysheets or.
' Clandestine newsheets, both declared. that the last propaganda scen was
the: clandestine issue on "Trinchera”™ (DRE organ), that no other pro-=
aI ‘paganda ‘sheets ‘had been. seen since before tiie April tavasion, .

9. ‘When asked their impression, on anti-CASTRO propag anda an
general they felt that it was too negative: that while the exiles and
: opposition froups were busy. tearing” down the imaye of CASTRO, he was
before the people with some proposal that was ‘based either on truth,
had a ring of truth in it, or ak least appealed to the masses. . That
some of ther contacts with young girls who served as “brigadistas” ©
(rural .tutors in the campaign. for “Literacy? turned up interesting | .
remarks. . These girls’ claimed that many of the country folk. would throw
Ac sheir hands in dismay when Communism was mentioned to them, and: :
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10... Subjects alsé felt that propaganda ‘should be directed more
toward that Sector of Cubans*that are not fanatic Fidelistas ‘or .
‘conmunists, and have not commited. ‘themselves ‘to the opposition ihovement

“for. ‘such reasons as indolence,. ‘lack of couvage, or economic docibility:
‘Raquel remarked that ‘our propaganda seemed to be divided ‘into two. -

_ broad. categories, one directed at or attacking the hard- core. Fidelistas

and the: other for opposition movement consumption, | :

11. Subject c above. was debriefed for her report on “Feception of

- a FALCON broadcast in Havana on-I May 1962, She stated that she was,
-“€alled by a friend at about 2100 hours on I May and told that- the: DRE

Trinchera. ‘progran -was being broadcast over Channel. 2 at that :moment.:
Miriam turned on her. TV: and does not recall how high she had to turn up
: the. volume, but to lierrecollection, not higher than normal. Ld]:
_ wery ‘Clearly, the monologue * rebuttal of the ‘CASTRO: speech earl
/ afternoon. She immediately called two of her friends and subsequent:
"received calls from them and others ‘on reception of the program. Her}
‘ account of parts-.uof the program and: the. times stated agree. with WAVE? ©

: file copies of the program script..

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